Archives: Book Reviews

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Review of Anxious Experts: Disaster Response and Spiritual Care from 9/11 to the Climate Crisis By Joshua Moses, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022, 224 pp.

Karla Vermeulen

July 1, 2023

Book Review

Review of Mixing Medicines: Ecologies of Care in Buddhist Siberia by Tatiana Chudakova. New York: Fordham University Press, 2021, 344 pp.

Barbara Gerke

July 1, 2023

Book Review

Review of Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics By Krystale E. Littlejohn. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021, 184 pp.

Whitney Arey

July 1, 2023

Book Review

Review of Epidemic Illusions: On the Coloniality of Global Public Health. Eugene Richardson, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020, 232 pp.

Andrew Wooyoung Kim

June 5, 2023

Book Review

Review of Good Enough Mothers: Practicing Nurture and Motherhood in Chiapas, Mexico. J. M. López, New York: Berghahn Books, 2022, 200 pp.

Jessica Dailey

June 5, 2023

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Review of Reproductive Losses: Challenges to LGBTQ Family‐making. Christa Craven, London: Routledge, 2019, 266 pp.

Erica van der Sijpt

June 5, 2023

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Review of The Market in Mind: How Financialization Is Shaping Neuroscience, Translational Medicine, and Innovation in Biotechnology. Mark Dennison Robinson, Cambridge, MA: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2019, 239 pp.

Alberto Eduardo Morales

June 5, 2023

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Review of Viral Loads: Anthropologies of Urgency in the Time of COVID‐19. Lenore Manderson, Nancy J. Burke, and Ayo Wahlberg, eds., London: UCL Press, 2021, 488 pp.

Abin Thomas

June 5, 2023

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Review of Christ Returns from the Jungle: Ayahuasca Religion as Mystical Healing. Marc G. Blainey, Albany: SUNY Press, 2021, 562 pp.

Abou Farman

June 5, 2023

Book Review

Review of Food Allergy Advocacy: Parenting and the Politics of Care. Danya Glabau, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022, 288 pp.

Jennifer Patico

June 5, 2023